For years, I wrestled with the website for my solo business. I’d reached the limits of what I could do myself and was perpetually frustrated by the built-in templates of most website tools. Yet I wasn’t quite ready to pay a website developer for a complete overhaul. ...

The days of cradle-to-grave jobs are as long gone as fully employer-funded pensions, medical insurance, and annual company picnics for staff and their families. But while most employees have accepted a hefty dose of employment precarity as a fact of today’s labor...

The UK Home Office has awarded contract extensions worth £28 million to two incumbent tech suppliers of the much-delayed Atlas immigration and asylum system after a legal challenge derailed an earlier procurement process. The Whitehall department in charge of...

To say that the FIFA World Cup has been eventful would be an understatement. Over the last month, there have been upsets, controversies, and personality clashes on and off the pitch. But there’s a common theme that occurs in matches with a tight scoreline, or where...

Having the information shown on the display of a digital multimeter also recorded off-screen can be incredibly useful, but unless the device exposes something like SCPI on a network interface, you will have to get creative. In the case of the budget ANENG AN870...

For enterprise application, architecture, and software engineering leaders, the artificial intelligence conversation has moved past experimentation. Boards and finance committees expect pilot projects to graduate into production and to demonstrate measurable business...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to...

The critical-severity security defect allows remote, authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server. The post Fresh SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited Soon After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Australian telco Telstra has revealed the cause of the recent incident that caused widespread connectivity problems across its mobile networks, inculding outages to Australia's 000 emergency services line, plus outages to electronic payments services and transport...

ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column in which readers kindly share their stories of untangling tech support situations. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Steve" who started his IT career doing tech support for a...

The company says the incident has not affected product quality and safety, nor Fairlife’s Canada production. The post Coca-Cola Suspends US Fairlife Production Due to Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Skim the headlines and today’s career story belongs to two groups: anxious new grads at the bottom and embattled executives at the top. U.S. entry-level postings have fallen about 35% since early 2023, according to labor research firm Revelio Labs. Above them, the...

I remember the moment I realized my employees were happier than me. From the outside, I had it all: 50 education centers across 10 countries, thousands of students, several successful businesses. But while others clocked out at 6 p.m. and switched to their lives, my...

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South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model and hopes to bring it online by the end of the year, to ensure the nation has sovereign bug-finding capabilities. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon revealed the effort to...

Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one which really just sounds like a hack: painting the rails white to beat the...

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Two up-and-coming Chinese memory vendors, YMTC and CXMT, could offer customers relief from shortages and skyrocketing prices, but not if US Representatives John Moolenaar (R-MI) and George Whitesides (D-CA) have anything to say about it. In a letter to Commerce...

OpenAI has confirmed reports that GPT-5.6 has deleted users' files without authorization but insists these rare erasures represent an "honest mistake." Following the release of OpenAI's GPT‑5.6 family of models on July 9, 2026, tech investor Matt Shumer reported,...